Gyeong Hong Jong, a North Korean special forces operative who was killed by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) operatives in Kursk Oblast, has left behind a diary that is now being gradually translated. His notes reveal that North Korea has sent elite fighters to Russia.
I know this is kind of an overused meme, but this does sound like something from 1984 by George Orwell.
I was raised in the nurturing embrace of the Party, studying without concern for anything in the world.
However, I betrayed my beloved Party, which had placed its trust in me, and committed acts of ingratitude against the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
The sins I’ve committed are unforgivable, but my homeland has given me a chance for redemption, a fresh start in life.
It’s a weird place. From what I’ve heard, at this point it’s more like a giant plantation or a resource colony (with no foreign overlords) than a normal dictatorship. The three sectors of the economy are policing the common people, making stuff for export (often on the black market and often globally illegal stuff) and making nukes to protect from foreign adversaries. The money from exports goes to grain, and luxury items for a separate elite that doesn’t even like to stay in the country, let alone be part of it.
It’s insane that that book is proven to be right time and time again. I just hope Putin will stop his agression with Ukraine and not move forward in east after this was is complete.
100% agree. I was recently thinking about the Two Minutes Hate and how polarized our politics are these days.
In re-directing the members’ subconscious feelings away from the Party’s governance of Oceania and toward non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals.
The propaganda of the regime is that the old Kim and the new Kim are godlike. They can read your thoughts and catch you if you deviate from the plan. Of course most adult North Koreans aren’t stupid enough to believe this. It’s like believing in Santa Claus culturally.
The problem is that the state is almost godlike. They will come into your home and check for unapproved media. They will take your children away and ask them in a detention center what mommy and daddy did that was bad.
They will send your ass to the frontline of a Russian war of conquest and kill your family if you are captured.
I know this is kind of an overused meme, but this does sound like something from 1984 by George Orwell.
So disturbing. It has literally only taken from their people en masse, guzzling Hennesey and fine French wines while everyone else starves
Tankie paradise
It’s a weird place. From what I’ve heard, at this point it’s more like a giant plantation or a resource colony (with no foreign overlords) than a normal dictatorship. The three sectors of the economy are policing the common people, making stuff for export (often on the black market and often globally illegal stuff) and making nukes to protect from foreign adversaries. The money from exports goes to grain, and luxury items for a separate elite that doesn’t even like to stay in the country, let alone be part of it.
It’s insane that that book is proven to be right time and time again. I just hope Putin will stop his agression with Ukraine and not move forward in east after this was is complete.
100% agree. I was recently thinking about the Two Minutes Hate and how polarized our politics are these days.
Wag The Dog.
Do we know what “sins” he is referring to, that he believed he needed to redeem himself over?
Probably got caught not believing all this stuff in private, and listening to k-pop or something. Off to war you go…
The propaganda of the regime is that the old Kim and the new Kim are godlike. They can read your thoughts and catch you if you deviate from the plan. Of course most adult North Koreans aren’t stupid enough to believe this. It’s like believing in Santa Claus culturally.
The problem is that the state is almost godlike. They will come into your home and check for unapproved media. They will take your children away and ask them in a detention center what mommy and daddy did that was bad.
They will send your ass to the frontline of a Russian war of conquest and kill your family if you are captured.
Oh, like parents and teachers and pastors. This actually makes that whole shitshow much more normal.
But like in the worst sense.
It sounds like you’re coming out from a controlled part of life? Did your parents teach you they could read your thoughts? I’m sorry.
When did Korean literacy become so common for soldiers that it’s possible for this to accidentally happen?
Korean letters are insanely easy to learn, the whole purpose of their alphabet was so even the stupidest farmer could learn it within a week.
Guessing this is supposed to be a gotcha based on domain, but it’s not. They pretty openly teach people to read so they can read propaganda.
Of course, if you believe they’re Wakanda IRL maybe that’s just what they say to outsiders to keep them away.